Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Classical Endemic Birding Tour Ethiopia



Day 12:
- Full Day to Explore the Sanetti Plateau and Balé Mountains National Park


CANCELLED

Political trouble in the Bale Mountains area and they have closed the area. So we have to change our schedule.

Full Day Birding around Yabelo

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Classical Endemic Birding Tour Ethiopia
Day 12: Birding in the Yabelo area

Today, we have a full day to bird in the arid savannas around Yabelo. We will certainly enjoy watching the social Stresemann’s Bushcrow and pretty White-tailed Swallow. We will also find Bateleur, Eastern Chanting-Goshawk, Somali Courser, Three-banded Courser, Black-faced Sandgrouse, Red-bellied Parrot, Red-fronted Barbet, D’Arnaud’s Barbet, Red-naped Bushshrike, Pringle’s Puffback, Foxy Lark, Pale Prinia, Scaly Chatterer, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Spotted Palm Thrush, Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird, Hunter’s Sunbird, Golden-breasted Starling,Magpie Starling, Yellow-spotted Petronia, Chestnut Weaver, Purple Grenadier, Black-capped Social Weaver, Grey-capped Social Weaver, White-bellied Canary, and many more species characteristic of the dry savannas that cover the region.

Night in Yabelo, Yabelo Motel.

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Yabelo Motel

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Yabelo Motel
My room at Yabelo Motel

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Yabelo Motel
Not possible to have a shower




Thursday 31st of October 2019 and I was really sick waking up with fever. Full day of birding ahead, but I told my Guide that we would start very close to the hotel. Then we can see what happens. But we started the day by going to Yabelo Motel to check-in. Just two minutes’ drive from Park Hotel. I put my luggage in my room and I really liked the room. At least comparing with some of the rooms I have stayed in here in Ethiopia.

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Yabelo Motel
Time to go bird watching

We drove a little south from the hotel to an area around the Borana Lodge. Leaving the paved road and we drove through the savanna, a beautiful area. We stopped to have a look at some birds. Among them the African Black-headed Oriole and as they were loud I managed to get a recording of one of the birds. But as I was very bad I didn't had any energy to chase after the birds to get any pictures.

I was really feeling bad and I was not so enthusiastic about the bird watching. But I spotted a Bearded Woodpecker and I managed to get one picture. I was really sick and I gave up after a short birding session and we drove back to the hotel.

Bearded Woodpecker, Chloropicus namaquus

Stresemann's Bushcrow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, Abyssinian Pie, Bush Crow, Ethiopian Bushcrow

Stresemann's Bushcrow, Zavattariornis stresemanni, Abyssinian Pie, Bush Crow, Ethiopian Bushcrow
Stresemann's Bushcrow

Birding/ Bird watching in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia - Classical Endemic Birding Tour Ethiopia
Our car under the bird tree

Northern Red-billed Hornbill, Tockus erythrorhynchus

Listen to the Black-headed Oriole

Remarks from the Recordist

The bird is called African Black-headed Oriole in eBird

Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy Recorder. High pass filter applied with Audacity.

I was very sick and I never bothered to chase the bird for pictures.


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Bird watching/ birding in Ethiopia with Flamingos Tours Ethiopia
Today´s track at Borana Lodge

eBird

eBird Report

Borana Lodge, Oromia, ET Oct 31, 2019 07:38 - 08:21
Protocol: Traveling
3,64 kilometer(s)
Comments: 20 Days Ethiopian birding tour. Birding with my Guide.
7 species

Northern Red-billed Hornbill 4
Bearded Woodpecker 1
African Black-headed Oriole 4
Stresemann's Bush-Crow 5
Superb Starling X
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver X
Red-cheeked Cordonbleu 1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S61058991



Yet another Smiley on www.aladdin.stI was feeling very bad and my Guide wanted to take me to the hospital. But I was not fit to visit any hospital. Bird watching tomorrow, click HERE to see if I can make it out in the wilderness to look for birds.



       
                  
OK, it has come to my knowledge that we have senior citizens visiting my web page. How hard can it be? So it's not very easy for them to see the blue coloured links to the next page.
Jiffy (also jiff)

noun [in SING.] informal a moment: we'll be back in a jiffy.

ORIGIN late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.

So as you understand, in a jiff pretty much depends on your internet.
So I put a “Next” button here and I hope that there isn't any problem to understand how to use that one. So just CLICK the “Next” button on your left hand side and you will be on the next page in a jiff!

Marunong ka mag-tagalog? Walang problema! Magpunta sa kabilang pahina pindutin ang “NEXT” button sa itaas

Faites vous parlez le français? Pas de problème! Pour arriver à la page suivante faites s'il vous plaît un déclic le bouton “Next” ci-dessus!

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E ni Svenskar och inte förstår Engelska så ska ni skämmas. J och Björn, med det menar jag inte att alla mina stavfel ska ältas varje gång vi träffas.

Flag of Skåne / Skånska flaggan Well, the flag of Skåne, just a BONUS flag.


                                       

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